GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| pugilist | fighter |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |